Mr. Jim Griffin:

I would certainly start with the code of conduct booklet. When the code of conduct was designed, and given to us as volunteers to have our say on it, it was predominantly brought out by the volunteers. For a long number of years, we were happy to work within the confines of the code of conduct because it was a code we practically wrote ourselves and gave us the ownership to deal with issues without having to go outside the remit of the unit involved in whatever dispute it had. At that stage, we were probably trundling along from 2012 through to 2014 or 2015 with that code of conduct book. It was then rehashed and rejigged and, at that stage, volunteers and officers in charge had very little input into it. As a matter of fact, I would go as far as saying an officer in charge, who was very involved in the code of conduct at the time, expressed his view that the new edition that came out had very little to do with the input of officers or the volunteers. He became a target himself, was victimised and is now another officer, like us, standing on the sidelines looking in.